Integration of Phenotypes in Microbiome Networks for Designing Synthetic Communities: a Study of Mycobiomes in the Grafted Tomato System.

ABSTRACT: Understanding factors influencing microbial interactions, and designing methods to identify key taxa that are candidates for synthetic communities, or SynComs, are complex challenges for achieving microbiome-based agriculture. Here, we study how grafting and the choice of rootstock influences root-associated fungal communities in a grafted tomato system. We studied three tomato rootstocks (BHN589, RST-04-106, and Maxifort) grafted to a BHN589 scion and profiled the fungal communities in the endosphere and rhizosphere by sequencing the internal transcribed spacer (ITS2). The data provided evidence for a rootstock effect (explaining ~2% of the total captured variation, P < 0.01) on the fungal community. Moreover, the most productive rootstock, Maxifort, supported greater fungal specie

SUBMITTER: Poudel R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10304797 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature